Summary: While the container ship ESTELLE MAERSK, with the Master, 27 crew members and a pilot on board, was proceeding north towards the South Entrance of Kobe Chuo Passage in the Kobe Section of Hanshin...

Having announced recently, that it is ‘more than ready’ to help shipowners meet the demands of the new IMO Polar Code, VIKING Life-Saving Equipment is set to announce another major innovation for those who want to stay...

Diana Containerships Inc., a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of containerships, announced that it has signed, through two separate wholly-owned subsidiaries, two Memoranda of Agreement to sell to an unaffiliated third party...

Clean The LR2 market has become firm with rates for 75,000 tonnes from Middle East Gulf to Japan up by 15 points to around WS 115 with LR1s steady at WS 115 basis 55,000 tonnes...

On Saturday morning at around 1 a.m, the MSC Madrid rammed the port side of the Primula Seaways. The latter came downstream from the river Scheldt and was unable to avoid being hit. The...

Panama Canal officials announced in a recent press release about the transit of its 3,000th Neopanamax vessel, exceeding initial traffic expectations by this date and reaffirming the value and impact its route had on...

The 7 Ongoing Myths regarding scrubbers 1. Scrubbers are too expensive.   Totally untrue. A 10 MW scrubber can be manufactured and installed in about USD 2 million. Additionally, unlike Ballast Water Systems, a Scrubber investment will...

Summary: On 7 September 2017, the 15.87m crew transfer vessel, Windcat 8, was on passage to Grimsby, UK, from the Lynn Wind Farm in the North Sea with two crew and eight windfarm technicians on...

Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD) and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Group recently signed, the first agreement of its kind to integrate their advanced digital technologies in light of a perceiving a greater insight from...

On March 5, nearly 1.3 tonnes of processed cannabis was seized by Greek authorities off a fishing vessel near the Southern Island of Crete. What happened? Based on inputs, the Greece coast guard intercepted a suspicious...